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There are twelve public holidays on the Costa Blanca in 2027. March is particularly good: with four public holidays, you can combine eleven days off between St Joseph’s Day and Easter Monday. In addition, there are two local public holidays per municipality.
The 2027 calendar of working days for the Comunitat Valenciana offers several opportunities for long weekends. As well as January and October, March and early December are particularly worth a look.
For the Costa Blanca as a whole, the public holiday calendar of the Comunitat Valenciana. In addition, there are two local public holidays in every municipality.
Date | Day of the week | Public holiday |
1 January | Friday | New Year |
6 January | Wednesday | The Three Kings |
19 March | Friday | San José |
26 March | Friday | Good Friday |
29 March | Monday | Easter Monday |
1 May | Saturday | Labour Day |
9 October | Saturday | Valencian Community Day |
12 October | Tuesday | Spanish National Day |
1 November | Monday | All Saints' Day |
6 December | Monday | Constitution Day |
8 December | Wednesday | The Immaculate Conception |
25 December | Saturday | Christmas |
The twelve public holidays are set out in Decree 42/2026 of the Consell for the whole of the Comunitat Valenciana. They therefore also apply on the Costa Blanca, from Dénia to Pilar de la Horadada. Under employment law, these days are paid and do not need to be made up.
The calculations are based on a standard working week from Monday to Friday.
New Year’s Day falls on Friday 1 January, and Epiphany on Wednesday 6 January.
Anyone who takes holiday on 4 and 5 January will have six days off from 1 to 6 January.
With two further days off on 7 and 8 January, this makes a total of ten days off from 1 to 10 January.
March 2027 offers the best combination.
San José falls on Friday 19 March. This is followed a week later by Good Friday on 26 March and Easter Monday on 29 March.
Anyone who takes four days’ holiday from 22 to 25 March will have eleven days off from 19 to 29 March.
Even without taking holiday, Easter makes for a long weekend: there are four consecutive days off from Good Friday to Easter Monday.
Important: Maundy Thursday, 25 March, is not a public holiday in the Comunitat Valenciana in 2027.
Spain’s National Day on 12 October falls on a Tuesday.
With a public holiday on Monday 11 October, this gives four days off from 9 to 12 October.
However, 9 October, the Day of the Comunitat Valenciana, falls on a Saturday in 2027.
All Saints’ Day on 1 November falls on a Monday. This automatically results in a long weekend from 30 October to 1 November.
December: five days off, including one day’s holiday
Constitution Day on 6 December falls on a Monday, and the Feast of the Immaculate Conception on 8 December falls on a Wednesday.
Anyone who takes Tuesday 7 December off will have five days off from 4 to 8 December.
With the additional days off on 9 and 10 December, this amounts to nine days off from 4 to 12 December.
Less favourable dates are 1 May, 9 October and Christmas on 25 December. All three public holidays fall on a Saturday in 2027.
For employees who normally work from Monday to Friday, this does not result in an additional day off.
The regional public holiday calendar does not yet constitute the full calendar for the place where you live or work. Each local authority is also allocated two additional local public holidays.
That is why the public holidays may vary, for example, in Dénia, Xàbia, Calp, Altea, Benidorm, Alicante or Torrevieja.
Anyone planning a holiday should therefore also check the local public holidays for their place of work. For example, a local public holiday in Alicante does not automatically apply in Benidorm or Dénia.
The regional calendar is based on Decree 42/2026 of 20 March 2026, published on 25 March 2026 in the DOGV. It sets out the twelve public holidays applicable to the Comunitat Valenciana in 2027.
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